Dr. Romas Kudirka graduated from University of California, San Diego with a BS in Chemistry. As one of the first chemists at Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation, he worked on the development of privileged nucleoside libraries. Returning to complete his PhD in Organic Chemistry at the University of
California, Irvine under the tutelage of Prof. David Van Vranken, his research involved the discovery of new reactions utilizing palladium-carbene intermediates generated from diazo compounds. Dr. Kudirka’s post-doctoral work focused on the mechanism of self-assembly of biologically inspired polymers. He currently works as a chemist at Catalent Pharma Solutions, formerly Redwood Bioscience, as a Senior Research Scientist, where he specializes in the development of new aldehyde conjugation techniques; linker strategy and design; and synthesis of highly potent cytotoxic payloads.
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